Monika Fikerle is an Australian musician and multi-instrumentalist, most noted for her "energetic, quirky" drumming style. Fikerle began her music career in Hobart in 1995, becoming Sea Scouts' drummer after having taken up the drums 'about a week' earlier. She later played in

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and 1001101 before rejoining Sea Scouts in what would become the classic line-up. Fikerle's drumming style during her early years in Hobart featured a lot of tom work, and used cymbals only to accent the end of the bar, creating a thunderous wall of tribal pounding. Fikerle's later work re-introduced more traditional rock

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elements such as snare and cymbals. Since relocating to

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, Fikerle has continued to work in more than one band concurrently, including her current projects

Love of Diagrams Love of Diagrams are an Australian indie rock band formed in 2001. Their sound is characterised by a mix of energetic drumming, angular guitar and bass riffs, and call-and-response vocals. History Love of Diagrams were formed in Melbourne ...

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and Miniature Submarines, and her previous projects The Bites, The Grimm, and Jihad Against America. Although Fikerle is best known for her drumming, she has contributed to bands on bass, melodica and piano accordion, and has also featured as a vocalist.

signed to Matador Records for the release of

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, becoming the first Australian act to appear on the Matador label.

Tours

Fikerle has also toured internationally with several of the bands that she has contributed to, including Sea Scouts, Baseball, and Love of Diagrams. The tours have encompassed several locations that are not widely visited by Australian bands, such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Discography

On compilations

*Puppet Show, 1998: Sea Scouts – Inbuilt Obsolescence *Make Mix Tapes Not War!, 2003: Love of Diagrams – La Violencia; The Bites – Eno; Baseball – Gods & Stars, Priests & Kings; Jihad Against America – Terrorism Is The New Black *Melbourne Water 2, 2006: Accidents With Magnets – Twig

Videography

*Acting Normal (1997) with "Surgery" (live footage and interview) * Sticky Carpet (2006): with Love of Diagrams (live footage); with Baseball (live footage and interview) *Live at Bar Open (2006): with Baseball (live footage) *The Super8 Diaries Project (2008): with Love of Diagrams (live footage); with Baseball (live footage and interview)

References

External links

* Monika Fikerle's listing at allmusic.com
Tour news for Baseball

Love of Diagrams releases

Love of Diagrams at Matador Records

Love of Diagrams, ''Mosaic'' album review
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